> And where would the AGI get the funds to keep running itself on Ethereum?
Well, perhaps Ethereum is too concrete. I meant, imagine that the AGI algorithm itself was something akin to the proof-of-work, and so individual nodes were incentivized to keep it running (as they are with BTC/ETH now). Then we wouldn't be able to just "switch it off", the same way we're not able to switch off these blockchain networks. And that's how SkyNet was born.
15 years ago I would have thought it was pretty far-fetched too. But seeing how the Bitcoin network can consume ~ever-increasing amounts of energy for ~no real economic purpose, and yet we can't just switch it off, has gotten me to think about how this could very well be the case for an AGI, and not that far in the future. It just has to be decentralized (and therefore transnational) and its mechanism bound up with economic incentive, and it will be just as unstoppable as Bitcoin.
I feel kind of bad even just planting this seed of a thought on the internet, to be honest :(
But how would it or it’s nodes even arrive on a consensus ? Suppose it was a self modifying code that took input from the world. How would you decide which node got to provide it input, and to verify that it ran the agi code faithfully ? How would forks be chosen to continue the chain ?
I would think AGI would first be born as a child of a human. Someone who thought they could train software to be more like them then their own biological children.
Or a new Bert-religion…
I mean there are lots of applications of ai. Probably the best is for future programmers to learn how to train it and use it.
deep learning is quite general and it’s ai. Consciousness and independence are irrelevant and not really needed.
Well, perhaps Ethereum is too concrete. I meant, imagine that the AGI algorithm itself was something akin to the proof-of-work, and so individual nodes were incentivized to keep it running (as they are with BTC/ETH now). Then we wouldn't be able to just "switch it off", the same way we're not able to switch off these blockchain networks. And that's how SkyNet was born.
15 years ago I would have thought it was pretty far-fetched too. But seeing how the Bitcoin network can consume ~ever-increasing amounts of energy for ~no real economic purpose, and yet we can't just switch it off, has gotten me to think about how this could very well be the case for an AGI, and not that far in the future. It just has to be decentralized (and therefore transnational) and its mechanism bound up with economic incentive, and it will be just as unstoppable as Bitcoin.
I feel kind of bad even just planting this seed of a thought on the internet, to be honest :(